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`python setup.py install` command should error out and ask user to use `pip`

See original GitHub issue

The only way to have a working installation of widgetsnbextension is to use pip.

The usual python setup.py install does not work, since that invokes setuptools (although setup.py seems to be written at some point with a conditional import of setuptools) and the setup() function of setuptools does not handle data_files correctly.

Note that it’s not a problem for me to use pip but it’s at least unexpected that python setup.py install does not work. So either this should be fixed or detected such that an error can be raised.

CC @embray @SylvainCorlay

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Created 7 years ago
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embraycommented, Aug 29, 2017

Just don’t use ./setup.py install directly. The problem is that it does the wrong thing for legacy support reasons.

I think in the past i had a good proposal for how to fix this in setuptools, but didn’t follow through on it. The best thing to do is to install with pip though.

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malatiyyahcommented, Aug 28, 2017

do you mean I change the content of the file?

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